I apologize if I sound to you as unexperienced and dumb as I sound to myself, but I shot a live concert this wednesday with an HV30, and an A1, and the audio, it's gonna be great. I'm almost done with the 1hr. and 45 min project. What I would like to know, is coming from others' past experiences, what would be the best rendering settings, and under what file type.

Now, the main center of my guessing is the file type. I'm on a PC so a mov wouldnt be wise. avi is unsupported, and huge, etc. plus will using a variable or constant bit rate be better, and uner what parameters? I'm using Vegas 6 (upgrades are expensive, I know)

What I need is as small as possible, without losing my pretty pixels :D

Thank You!

What you render your file as depends on what medium you are delivering. If you final output will be dvd, then I use the MPG-2 settings in vegas. Do you know your final output?

I do realize how old this post and you probably found your answer somehow.